LEARNING INTENTION
To use ICT tools to produce a short video clip.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & BEHAVIOURS
The knowledge, skills and behaviours identified for this learning task enable students to:
  • develop new thinking and learning skills that produce creative and innovative insights
  • develop more productive ways of working and solving problems individually and collaboratively
  • create information products that demonstrate their understanding of concepts, issues, relationships and processes
  • express themselves in contemporary and socially relevant ways
  • communicate locally and globally to solve problems and to share knowledge
  • understand the implications of the use of ICT and their social and ethical responsibilities as users of ICT

INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & TECHNOLOGY – LEVEL 4
ICT for visualising thinking
  • use ICT tools to list ideas, order them into logical sequences, and identify relationships between them
  • retrieve their saved visualising thinking strategies and edit them for use in new, but similar situations
  • explain how these strategies can be used for different problems or situations

ICT for creating
  • organise their files into folders classified in a way that is meaningful to them
  • explain the purpose of passwords for accessing files stored on networks
  • follow simple plans and use tools and a range of data types to create information products designed to inform, persuade, entertain or educate particular audiences create information products to assist in problem solving in all areas of the curriculum
  • use ICT tools to capture and save images
  • use simple editing functions to manipulate the images for use in their products
  • make ongoing modifications to their work to correct the spelling of frequently used words and to rectify simple formatting errors
  • evaluate the final information product and describe how well it meets its purpose
  • make adjustments to their equipment and apply techniques that are ergonomically sound

ICT for communicating
  • At Level 4, students initiate and compose email messages to known and unknown audiences and, where appropriate, send replies. Students create folders in their mailbox to organise the storage of email messages they wish to keep. They locate information on an intranet, and use a recommended search engine and limited key words to locate information from websites. They develop and apply simple criteria to evaluate the value of the located information.

LESSONS
1. Introduction
  1. Discuss the program outcomes
  2. View previous student examples
  3. Introduction to class wiki

2. Plan your film
  1. Choose your group members
  2. Select a computer
  3. Create a group folder Year 5’class’ Movie Making on the Windows (C:)
  4. Complete the Group Plan


3. Collect Background (images &/or film) & Sound Effects – save these to your group folder

4. Film your movie

5. Pinnacle video editing software